[Qgis-user] [Fwd: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?]

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Paolo,

[BTW Paolo is quoting Paul Ramsey, see
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/003458.html]

On Mon, 28. Apr 2008 at 09:06:26 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> I do not feel all too comfortable about these statements: am I wrong?

Why not?   He has some points.  And might not be uptodate on others.


> -------- Messaggio Originale  --------
> Among the things that QGIS (and other open source desktops) can't do
> are a

> table join,

true

> a spatial join,

covered by the geoprocessing plugin

> and symbolized thematic mapping.

What does that mean?  There's probably a renderer that covers that too.



Jürgen

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